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...British Commonwealth. Pious Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald's London Economic Conference was a notorious fiasco. In rapid succession, France dealt and discarded three Cabinets in twelve months, produced no leader sufficiently bold or capable to rescue her from the climbing quicksands of insolvency. In Russia Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff was a hero for his success in bringing about . S. recognition of the U. S. S. R., but that country's perennial Man of the Year remained Josef Stalin, whose dictatorship was marked by no major innovation...
Striking, in view of Comrade Litvinoff's promise to President Roosevelt that members of the Soviet Government would abstain from fomenting Communism in the U. S., is the Soviet Encyclopaedia's flat statement that in 1929 Stalin flayed both the German and U. S. Communist Parties for their "rightist opportunism"-i.e. their failure to foment Communism with sufficient "leftist violence...
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...crack Italian liner Conte di Savoia neared Naples, bearing roly-poly Comrade Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff from his triumph in Washington, the Italian Press burst with significant unanimity into a "tune" evidently called by Benito Mussolini. From the toe of the Italian boot to its strap among the Alps, Italians read that "Japanese dumping has become a new Oriental peril...
...Comrade Litvinoff landed at Naples with a shout: "Here we are! The trip from America was grand!" On the train to Rome he flipped through the Papal daily Osservatore Romano which headlined CANNIBALISM IN RUSSIA and asserted the Russian people's "disillusionment and utter disinclination to work under the Communist regime." In Rome the roly-poly Red was received in private audience by His Majesty King Vittorio Emanuele III and held a series of conferences with Premier Mussolini at which they secretly discussed disarmament and the Japanese trade menace before Comrade Litvinoff entrained for Moscowr...